The English have decided that they will allow their scientists to combine human genes with animal genes to make embryos. The embryos will not be a few human genes in an animal embryo, or a few animal genes in a human embryo, but a full blown merger of animal eggs and bird eggs to form [...]

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The food additive warriors have obviously got desperate but their last fling has won them the publicity battle by fraud. The extraordinary study below (Excerpt from The Times plus journal abstract) tells us NOTHING about actual food. Prior studies have not given the adverse effects hypothesized so this time they just gave kids cocktails of [...]

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I have to be honest. I was debating writing about this debate. I thought the latest Republican presidential primary debate taking place in Durham, NH on the campus of the University of New Hampshire was primed to be another snooze fest collection of stump speech greatest hits sound bytes that most of these gatherings have descended into, and while this event did have it’s share of repetition, it also featured a few stellar moments that are worth talking about.

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The ever so politically correct NYTimes has decided to slime Mother Teresa. Why am I not surprised? And the one they allowed to do it was an American who grew up in Calcutta, and is embarassed that the only thing that most Americans know of Calcutta is Mother Teresa. “…the only images Calcutta evoked for [...]

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I know there are a lot of people out there who say, “The economy is getting better. The economy is getting better. The unemployment rate is down. The consumer is spending more. The quality of life is good. What’s not to like?” I have been out of work for years, in effect, since I graduated [...]

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The assassination of John F. Kennedy has been an enduring story, there are as many explanations as I have hot dinners. I want to state right away that I am not a student of the subject, I just read books. And Books I have aplenty on the subject. I doubt that the whole story will [...]

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During a conference call with reporters and bloggers today, Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards called on the Congress to stand up to President Bush and bring the Iraq war to a conclusion. Along with this, Edwards is trying to start a grassroots effort to pressure Congress by using the slogan, “No timetable, No funding. No excuses.”

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Here are today’s updates for my favourite soaps. Days of Our Lives Jeremy is still planning on running but he wants Stephanie to go with him. He tells her he will leave without her and walks out. Stephanie tells Jett and Max that Jeremy took off and he was gone. Stephanie tells Max he wasn’t [...]

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I’d like to start this off without some kind of cliché. I grew up in NYC. Specifically Staten Island. It’s an island. And its attached to NYC by the Verrazano bridge and to NJ by the Goethals, Bayonne and Outer bridge Crossing bridges. But I am getting ahead of myself. I grew up on Staten [...]

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Tonight via web cast Fred Thompson will be officially announcing his candidacy for the 2008 Republican nomination. Thompson has decided to skip a Republican debate in New Hampshire and instead run a three pronged multimedia announcement strategy. Besides the web cast, Thompson will also run a commercial during the debate and later appear on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. I have read this strategy repeatedly described as Hollywood, but I think that description completely misses the strategic point.

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Yes it’s true. I got home from work yesterday and in my email inbox was an invite from Hillary asking me to lunch at her house in Washington. She wanted to sit down and talk about what concerns me and such. Actually, she wrote: “Let’s do lunch. Let’s talk, you and me — about whatever [...]

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We’re eating up the ads today on a Political Lunch special edition. Romney comes back to earth, Biden boasts experience, and Richardson gets serious. Pick your format: web or iTunes.

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          The government is requiring that all 2013 model-year vehicles come equipped with side air bags. This upgrade has been in consideration since 2004. Side air bags will protect the torso and head from serious injury in the event of an accident. It is said that these measures could save up to 300 lives and [...]

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        The Centre for Public Health at Liverpool John Moores University has determined that music stars are twice as likely to die an early death than the rest of the population. They are also more likely to die within a few years after they become famous. The main cause for this is alcohol and drug use. These [...]

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           A Polish man was recently convicted of killing a businessman in a way that mirrored a murder in one of his books. Krystian Bala was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the murder of Dariusz Janiszewski. The sentencing was due to the fact that there was no evidence to prove that Bala committed the murder himself or [...]

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This is not a cowboy hat. And that guy up there is not an American (think Marcel Duchamp’s pipe). This photo is bogus, however. I mean, I’m sure that the author of this piece meant well and all that (maybe that was the problem) but he unfortunately has no idea of what he is talking about [...]

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From The Gathering Storm Blog During the week of October 22-26, 2007, the nation will be rocked by the biggest conservative campus protest ever – Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, a wake-up call for Americans on 200 university and college campuses. And the Members of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) are all in a tizzy on what [...]

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There have been many, many commentators quick to criticize the new CBS “reality show” Kid Nation; while much of their criticism is unfounded even more borders on the ridiculous. General criticism’s have been based on CBS’s promo: “Forty kids with no parents, no teachers . . . anywhere.” This has led to charges ranging from [...]

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   Since Blogger has been kind enough to host this blog for about two years now, I thought I should do a post about the recent reports concerning malware and Blogger. Blogger itself, wasn’t compromised, but a lot of bloggers individual blogs were. Most people are compromised by malware after clicking on a link they [...]

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  When Information Technology Act 2000 (ITA-2000) was passed in 2000, in India, it was thought to be a special central legislation passed at the instance of UNO. Hence it was given  jurisdiction over Jammu and Kashmir along with the extra territorial jurisdiction under Section 75. The Act gave powers to State Government to pass [...]

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“The Path to 9/11,” ABC’s five-hour miniseries from earlier this year, is still not out on DVD and now the film’s screenwriter is claiming that ABC is blocking the release of the DVD to save Hillary and Bill Clinton the embarrassment they suffered when the show originally aired on TV. Why would ABC do this? [...]

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This one makes you want to say, “Captain Kirk to the Starship AP. Beam us up, there’s no intelligent life in the AP News Room.” on August 29th, the AP published a story scolding the U.S. Military for refusing to use a non-lethal “ray gun” to control crowds in Iraq and they quote a few [...]

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Still shedding campaign advisors, the presidential campaign of Fred Dalton Thompson launches tonight with an appearance on Jay Leno’s couch, an ad near the beginning of the Republican debate in New Hampshire, and a formal announcement via webcast tomorrow. According to Mike Allen’s Politico Playbook: Here’s the ad Fred Thompson will air during Fox’s GOP [...]

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General Petraeus’ coming testimony before Congress regarding the status of military operations in Iraq has inspired the Lefties to feats of classless jackassery beyond which anyone believed them capable. (Well, on second thought, it’s quite believable.) The group A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) has planned a “Die-In” for September 15 in [...]

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While the Vancouver School Board is exporting schools and diplomas to the children of the elite in China’s Communist Party, Vancouver residents say it is importing tactics of political repression used by China’s Communist Party. The result is an international boycott of Vancouver School Board secondary school diplomas. The boycott was launched in 2004 by individuals [...]

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Although Vacancy as a film isn’t too exciting, the soundtrack on its own is surprisingly intense. Paul Haslinger (of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream) has crafted an expertly thrilling action/suspense soundtrack here. The movie itself is more along the lines of suspense/horror, but that becomes a trifling matter once you pop in this eerie musical ride combining [...]

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What happens when a couple’s car breaks down on a deserted back road? Do they stand around and argue, or walk back a few miles and stay at the empty-looking hotel with the friendly mechanic (who happens to be Ethan Embry in the weirdest out-of-character role since Anne Hathaway in Havoc)?  Vacancy promises to answer these burning questions and more. [...]

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